Carolina Curiosities

by Jerry Bledsoe

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An offbeat guide that is the ticket to the North Carolina you never knew existed.

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Jerry Bledsoe was born July 14, 1941, in Danville, Virginia. Bledsoe is a newspaperman. He writes true crime stories as well as humor columns. He has won several awards, including the National Headliners Award (1969) and the Young Newspaperman Award from the International Newspaper Promotion Association (1971). As a writer Beldsoe focuses on North show more Carolina's land and people. Some of his titles include Some Funny Things Happened on the Way Back to the Land (1976), Visitin' with Carolina People (1980), and Blood Games: A True Account of Family Murder (1991). Blue Horizons: Faces and Places from a Bicycle Journey along the Blue Ridge Parkway was published in 1993. Before He Wakes: A True Story of Money, Marriage, Sex and Murder appeared in 1994. Bledsoe lives in Ashboro, North Carolina. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title
Carolina Curiosities
Original title
Carolina Curiosities - Jerry Bledsoe's Outlandish Guide to the Dadblamedest Things To See and Do In North Carolina
Original publication date
1984
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All of eastern North Carolina once lay deep under the ocean, and proof of it may be seen at Aurora's Fossil Museum.
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(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Mt Mitchel

A tower at the top provides a beautiful panoramic view.

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Nonfiction, Travel
DDC/MDS
917.56History & geographyGeography & travelGeography of and travel in North AmericaSoutheastern U.S.North Carolina
LCC
F252.3 .B56Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin AmericaUnited States local historyNorth Carolina

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